Railroad-tie.



PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

1?. W. METTLER. RAILROAD TIE.

- APPLICATION FILED MAR. s, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

WIT ESSES Patented November 22, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRED WRIGHT METTLER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

RAILROAD-Tl E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,454, dated November 22, 1904.

Application filed March 3, 1904. Serial No. 196,369- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED WRIGHT METTLER;

a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad- Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved railroad-tie, the object of the invention being to provide a pressed-steel tie of improved shape andconstruction and improved means for securing the rails in place thereon; and it consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved tie. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan view illustrating improved rail-securing means. Fig. 5 is a side view of Fig. 4, showing the tie partly in section; and Fig. 6 is a View in cross-section of the tie.

1 represents my improved tie composed of pressed steel and of' the general inverted-V shape in cross-section, having longitudinal The tie is provided with openings 10 in opposite sides of its enlarged portions, said openings at opposite sides being of different size and the smaller openings having their upper walls in a lower plane than the upper walls of the larger openings. Wedge-shaped lockingbars 11 are passed through alined openings 10 in the tie and through openings 9 in the bars 7, and owing to the contact of the inclined edges of said bars 11 with the upper .walls of the openings 10 the farther in the bars 11 are driven the more will be the downward pull on clamping-bars 7 to firmly clamp the rail onto the tie. When the proper adjustment is secured, the smaller ends of the bars 11 are bent to one side, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, to prevent Withdrawal of the bars and consequent release of the rails. Of course these bars 11 can be straightened when it is desired to disconnect the rail.

My improved tie is preferably formed from a fiat sheet pressed into shape between dies and is so shaped as to insure great strength and durability and be also sufliciently elastic.

Slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention,

and hence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pressed-steel tie, of generalinverted- V shape in cross-section throughout its central and end portions, having flat top and flanged sides, and having enlarged supportingplatforms near its ends.

2. The combination with a metal tie having a rail-supporting platform, and openings in said platform, of clamping-bars in said openings and adapted to engage the base-flange of the rail, and wedges passed through alined openings in the opposite sides of the tie and through openings in the clamping-bars, and adapted when forced inward to force downward the clamping-bars.

3. The combination with a metal tie having a rail-supporting platform, and openings in said platform, of clamping-bars in said openings and adapted to engage the base-flange of the rail, and Wedges passed through alined In testimony whereof I have signed this openings in the opposite sides of the tie and specification in the presence of tWo subscribing through openings in the clamping-bars vand Witnesses.

adapted when forced inward to force doWn- FRED WRIGHT METTLER. Ward the clamping-bars, and said bars bent Witnesses:

at an angle Where they project through the GEO. F. MORGAN,

tie, locking them in place. S. A. HART. 

